Since \xi is a white noise process, and x is its integral (plus the initial condition x0), this makes x a random walk a.k.a. a driftless Wiener process (I am probably conflating a lot of things which are not technically the same, sorry maths people). So x(t) = x0 + W(t) At a given time, the incremen...

And CNN's evidently concerned that their future is ruined. To be fair, their future pretty much is ruined, and that is cause for concern. As much as rape culture needs to be stopped, branding minors as sex offenders for life is not the way to go about it Vengeance was served, but justice was not. I...

Firstly, capitalism would crash in this economy. Why employ people when a robot can just do their work better? Companies would basically remove the need to pay people for labour, and without anyone getting money, no one would be able to buy anything and the companies would crash. Basically the econ...

It's an old subject that has received a lot more serious attention for other formats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism I think that by the mid-20th century, most philosophers converged on the common conclusion, often begrudgingly, that there is no objective metric for the quality of a...

I can't see any worthwhile links with particle physics (insofar as hadrons etc) here, but there is a less dissipative form of this experiment that's been done in France using silicone oil droplets. Since a lot of quantum mechanics is just quantised wave mechanics, you get a lot of the nice features....

Hope this isn't too late. What might be useful is drawing an analogy to electric circuits. heat flow -> current temperature -> voltage conductivity -> electrical conductivity In circuits, you'll see conductance (or its inverse, resistance) being used instead of conductivity, because that's more impo...

I think your interpretation of the texts is spot on. What really bothers me is that the mainstream media hasn't even touched upon the meaning and subtext of the text messages apart from them being "vile".

Going to see GYBE at ATP in Melbourne w/ My Bloody Valentine and Swans. Stoked. Also, has Rodan been mentioned yet? I think they usually get dismissed as Slint's lesser cousin (they were from Louisville) but I think that's because their only album "Rusty" was kind of all over the place son...

Reactionary garbage like that website can only do a disservice to art in my mind. It seems to follow the prototypical critique of modern art which boils down to it pursuing novelty for its own sake, a completely valid qualm. But it's no more general than pointing out that classical art was to a larg...

It's the relativistic version of Newton's second law. If the velocity v << c, where c is the speed of light, the denominator vanishes and you obtain the Newtonian version F=ma. However, as an object approaches the speed of light the denominator approaches zero, and the force required to further spee...

It seems to be a common misconception that computers in the future will be entirely quantum right at the bottom. This makes no sense practically, since quantum analogues of most algorithms offer no speedup (indeed, with all the error correction required, the quantum version would always be slower). ...

I wonder what a flat earth would look like. For one thing there would be no time zones, the sun would rise in all places at once. I guess there wouldn't be a horizon in the same way, so you could see the whole world simultaneously with a telescope from a mountaintop, if the air was clear enough. Al...

I've given up reading Adbusters regularly because nowadays it's just filled with this useless, exhausted, May '68 nostalgia without the urgency-type rhetoric. The society of the spectacle is here - impromptu dances do not present an alternative anymore

I used to deliver pizzas at night in the mountains and really got into making soundtracks for it! The track that immediately comes to mind is DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like pt 4, others off Endtroducing would work too. other albums: Three Mile Pilot - Chief Assassin To The Sinister (depre...

Erik Satie's Gymnopides and Gnossienes. They're very simple pieces but the subtleties are in the dynamics and the loose timings. For those who haven't heard of Satie, you'll probably recognise a fair few pieces from movie soundtracks.

I imagine it would have to approximately mean socially liberal (civil rights, anti-war, etc). If it were to mean left-wing we'd run into a paradox since a private individual who owns such a massive proportion of the world's media couldn't reasonably call themselves a left-winger. But then we still r...

I assume the extra capacitance to ground changes the resonance frequency of the tuned LC filter, so once you pull away it shifts away from the station you just tuned to and back into static wilderness.

However, some smaller heath shops are saying the measures are Draconian and will allow big pharmacies to take over their stuff as they're too small to afford to conform to these new rules This thought does not sadden me. Rant and rave all you want about how evil Big Pharma is, but at least their st...

We started prosecuting snake oil sellers a long time ago. It's not about government preventing people from making bad decisions; it's about government protecting people from [murder by] fraud. By murder, are you implying that a) herbal remedies actually kill, or b) dispensaries promote herbs that t...

I recommend Unwound especially "New Plastic Ideas" and "Repetition". Also, Blonde Redhead "Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons" Touch and Go records put out a lot of crucial noise rock which tended to be more abrasive and pounding than atmospheric, I guess. My picks would ...